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Senior Research Officer - Hydrologist

1.00 to 10.00 Years   Lahore, Pakistan   31 May, 2022
International Water Management Institute
1 Jobs Openings
Job LocationLahore, Pakistan
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Job Description

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is looking for a Hydrologist to carry out hydrological studies for monitoring, management and protection of water and water resources in a varity of hydrological and environmental settings. You will develop, calibrate, and validate models, including sensitivity analysis and documentation of the various modeling applications at different spatial scales. You will contribute to the research activities, including literature reviews, field data collection and analysis, policy scanning, and coordination with stakeholders and project partners in the water and climate sectors. You will also organize project-related events, workshops, training, and field work involving various stakeholders and will contribute to donor reports and research publications.Duties and Responsibilities

  • Assist in collecting the hydrological and hydrogeological variables from the national and international data archives.
  • Work with specifically-designed computer modelling packages to assess the most effective methods of managing available water in a river basin.
  • Process meteorological, snow, and hydrologic data to analyze the changes in water flows brought up by changes in land use, environmental factors and crop irrigation.
  • Pre-process the primary data in the different image processing software to calculate and audit water resources system.
  • Assist in parameterizing the hydrological models to allow the development of flood forecasting and drought management strategy.
  • Assist in calibrating and validating various hydrological models for different land use and climate change scenarios.
  • Analyze datasets for computing changes in water storage on different spatio-temporal bases.
  • Estimate water yields, taking into account the utilization of water in a specific natural drainage areas.
  • Assess the relationship between rainfall, run off, soil and plants to map the systematic changes in water demand and supply considering the climate shifts for catchment to basin scale.
  • Assist in determining the amount of water that can be allocated for domestic, agricultural, industrial and environmental purposes to sustain ecosystems.
  • Assist in organizing different stakeholder meetings and disseminating the results at different levels.
  • Be part of the research team during fieldwork, participating in interdisciplinary research activities, including data collection, processing and analysis, in the thematic issues such as policy, institutions, water governance and water management.
  • Contribute to building positive relationships with the government, civil society and other stakeholders.
  • Provide support to organizing meetings, dialogues and workshops for the project.
  • Assist in preparing high quality project reports according to project timelines.
  • Provide support to preparing project-specific communication materials.

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